2. Sidespin dink to pull people wide. 3. Defensive slice dink if you are pushed off the line Start low, stay low. Bend your knees, squat on your dinks. Pretend there is a roof over your head that if you stand up, you hit your head. You are using 90% on your left-hand in twoey …
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Slice drop – Forehand and Backhand
Priority Checklist: Advantage compared to a flatter drop like a scoop drop, the backspin adds control and makes it harder for opponents to do it. Word of warning: if ball is shoulder height and above, don’t hit a slice drop, just drive it.
Slice Dink
A slice dink doesn’t have to be defensive. If you watch Mari play, she can really aggressively slice dink it with a lot of backspin. And it has so much backspin that it’s really hard to return it back with topspin. Technique Priority Checklist: Slice dink is a variation, you want to have variations: don’t …
The Scorpion
It’s actually pretty simple and very effective. Popularized by Colin Johns, it allows you to cover your chicken wing aka jam spot from a speed-up. If you are a taller player, you have a larger jam spot, and a scorpion really helps cover that weakness.Very versatile and like a tomahawk, it can cover both sides …
Hesacore – six month use review
I’ve had a lot of people ask me about the Hesacore so I will answer people’s questions here. I got golfer’s elbow from playing Pickleball like 3 sessions in. Granted I was practicing hitting serves 100 times on day 1. I came from table tennis background where serves are a huge part of the game …
A11N Portable Pickleball Net Review
Assembly Takes 2 people approximately 5 mins to put together. The metal interlocking buttons on mine were easy to push in without much force at all which is great for 1 man assembling. Instructions were pretty clear and easy to follow. And this is coming from someone like me who is bad at following instructions. …
Game to Watch (Analysis): Johns/Johns vs Tardio/Daescu – Carvana PPA Atlanta
In “Game To Watch”, I post games that are interesting to watch in a strategy perspective. And I breakdown specific points and patterns that are interesting or lead the match wins. Setting the stage: the Johns brothers have a negative win rate against Gabe Tardio for the past months. Tardio seemingly has their number. Tardio …
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Pickleball Footwork for Beginners – Think Boxing
Beginners often don’t even realize 90% of their mistakes come from one thing: bad footwork. I was trying to explain pickleball footwork succinctly to my cousin who has no racket sport experience. I couldn’t really get to him until I said think of footwork like “boxing”. Just like Boxing: Drills: Solo Drills:
Christian Alshon Breaks Down Gold Medal Match Against Johns Brothers – Traditional Pickleball vs Modern Pickleball
As paddle technology increases allow players to hit harder and keep the ball in with spin, there has been an increase in power added to the pickleball game. This style of play is what is also called “modern pickleball”. Previously, most players would flat drop or backspin drop to get to the kitchen. And then …
ATP
If you cannot ATP, your opponent’s will continue to dink you out wide, pulling you out of position. Just being able to ATP and threatening it is huge in leveling the playing field. The key with ATP is to get low and hit the ball right before the ball makes contact with the floor right …